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Soul Breaker Gender Differences

There actually is a major difference in the two types of Soul Breakers. Both of them actually aren’t entirely the same. The first MAJOR difference is their starting basic status. Unlike the other races, Kamael males and Kamael females start off with entirely different status.

Male – INT 29 | STR 41 | CON 31 | MEN 25 | DEX 33 | WIT 11

Female – INT 28 | STR 39 | CON 30 | MEN 27 | DEX 35 | WIT 11

As you can see their status aren’t too far off from each other, but they still hold important differences. Males have more P.ATK (Physical Attack), and more HP (Hit Points) than females. They also have slightly more M.ATK (Magic Attack), but not enough to make any type of difference.

Females on the other hand have more M.DEF (Magic Defense), Status Resistance, Critical Rate, Speed and Attack Speed than the males. Again these are only subtle differences, but still something you want to look into when choosing which race you want as your Soul Breaker.

The next difference between the male and female Soul Breakers is their first job skills. This is very important to look into because depending on which one you pick, depends on your actually play style of your Soul Breaker.

If you look at the skill list of the male first class they gain Ancient Sword Mastery, Dark Strike, Strike Back, Furious Soul, Increase Power, Rush, Courage, Disarm and Sword Shield. Now as a Soul Breaker you won’t need Ancient Sword Mastery and Dark Strike. Those are not important at all, but what is important are the other set of skills.

Strike Back is a reflect damage skill. It allows you to deal damage when you’re being attacked like any other basic reflect skill. This is a toggle that you can turn on an off. It’s decent if you want to do a little more damage against melee characters, but I’m not too fond of it.

Furious Soul is a great skill for the Soul Breaker. Soul Breaker will get an increase in critical rate and critical power, which Soul Breakers love. It’s a skill that should be used at all times when in combat.

Increase Power is a small little Might 1 that is good when you don’t have a buffer to add with your Newbie Buffs and there are no herb pots dropping where you are killing. If you can find better, get so, if not, Might 1 is better than anything. Rush is a pretty decent skill that allows your Soul Breaker to close the gap between you and your target so that you can get in close for your hard hitting skills. This prevents them from running away from you.

Courage is another decent skill that increases your Mental Resistance. It doesn’t last long though, and since it’s only level 1 it’s not a suitable replacement for Mental Shield, but still it does help out for a few brief seconds.

Disarm is one of those skills that really is fun to use. Soul Breaker with this in PVP is very remarkable really. Though its level 1 and it won’t last long, you will get those people who don’t realize they don’t have a weapon on, thus dying to you vigorously. Even at level 1, Disarm is able to make S-Graders drop their weapons and in so can allow a Soul Breaker to win a fight.

Sword Shield is literally a god send to Soul Breakers. This is the Kamaels equivalent to a Destroyers Guts skill. Super increased P.DEF (Physical Defense) for about a minute with no type of speed reduction at all, what more could you asks for right?

Now that you got an understand of the male side of the skills lets go into the female side of the skills.

Female Soul Breakers gain Rapid Attack, Crossbow Mastery, Penetrating Shot, Defuse Trap, Detect Trap, Increase Range, Fire Trap, Fast Shot and Warp. I will be the first to say that the only skills important in that entire list are Rapid Attack and Warp. Everything else is not needed unless you want to buy a crossbow for parties, but in reality you won’t get to do as much damage as you will be doing with your rapier so I wouldn’t bother doing it.

Rapid Attack is your personal haste skill. It’s a wonderful skill for when you don’t have newbie buffs that’s about it really. It’s Haste 1, but that is still pretty fast Attack Speed and suitable substitute.

Warp, bottom line, allows you to teleport a short distance in front of you in an instant. This maybe not seem like anything great, but trust me, later on in this Guide, you’ll be thanking this skill.

The final difference between the male and female is the downright play style of the character. As you see from the character skills from their first class jobs, the male does benefit more from the skill department than the female. The male is more so the aggressor as you would think from these skills, but in actuality, my opinion only, the female is the better for Soul Breakers. Reason I say this is because the females, though only gets 1 worthy skill, have a higher critical rate, higher M.DEF and so forth, from their basic status. That is what gives Soul Breakers the larger edge in the female department, just the basic status alone. But like I said, this is purely opinion on my part between the two genders. Some people prefer the more aggressive nature of the male, but I prefer the tactics based female and the larger M.DEF. There is, of course a reason why M.DEF is important for Soul Breaker and I’ll be explaining that in the PVP section of this guide.